Ancel Keys Cholesterol Con. Part 13. 1993-2005
1993. Harvard University’s Professor Walter Willett MD invents the Mediterranean Diet. When Ancel Keys began to promote his low fat diet to prevent CHD, he advocated replacing saturated fat with industrially-produced “vegetable” oils “rich in polyunsaturated fats”. Although he was aware that polyunsaturated fats had certain limitations – limitations fully exposed in the Joint Statement […]
The Ancel Keys Cholesterol Con. Part 12. 1984-1993
1984 NIH Consensus Development Conference Any reasonable intellect would have to conclude that the LRC CPPT findings released in 1984, did not support Keys’ Lipid Hypothesis. They could only ever be interpreted as evidence that even if the Lipid Hypothesis was partially true, the contribution of a raised blood cholesterol concentration to CHD was miniscule. […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con, Part 5
1957: First Results From Framingham Reported The first findings in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) were reported nine years after the study had been initiated as a result of President Truman signing the U.S. National Heart Act into law. I’ve presented some of those findings in an earlier column (1); here I review the important […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 3. by Prof. Tim Noakes
How an insecure and unproven hypothesis became a global unchallenged dogma. The ultimate victory of commerce over science. The sequence of events that produced one of the greatest scams in the history of modern medicine. Table 1 in the previous column (1) lists the sequence of events that, I will argue, were critical in directing […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con Part 2. by Prof Tim Noakes
The sequence of events that produced the greatest scam in the history of modern medicine. Table 1 describes the sequence of 70 events that I will argue were critical in directing an unquestioning global acceptance of Keys’ unproven hypotheses and then its subsequent disproof. In that table I simply outline each event in its barest […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 1. How an insecure and unproven hypothesis became a global unchallenged dogma – By Prof. Tim Noakes
“THE METHOD OF SCIENCE IS THE METHOD OF BOLD CONJECTURES AND INGENIOUS AND SEVERE ATTEMPTS TO REFUTE THEM,’ SAID KARL POPPER, THE DEAN OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. POPPER ALSO NOTED THAT AN INFINITE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE WRONG CONJECTURES EXIST FOR EVERY ONE THAT HAPPENS TO BE RIGHT. THIS IS WHY THE PRACTICE OF SCIENCE […]
Ansel Keys’ Cholesterol Con, Part 5. by Prof Noakes
How an insecure and unproven hypothesis became a global unchallenged dogma. The ultimate victory of commerce over science. 1957: The first results from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) are reported. Nine years after the FHS had been initiated as a result of President Truman’s action in signing US National Heart Act into law, the first […]